Reviews by patients who have Tooth Pain and take Zinc either as part of daily diet or as method of treatment. Positive and negative experiences from patients with Tooth Pain that take Zinc
1 Red or black colored stool may be a sign of bleeding in the GI tract (from the esophagus, stomach, small intestine or colon) and should not be ignored.  When stool color changes, what tests need to be done depend upon depends upon what cause is suspected for the stool color change.
However, black stool can also be caused by a serious condition, such as bleeding in the digestive tract caused by a peptic ulcer. Black stool that is tarry in texture and foul smelling is often a symptom of upper gastrointestinal bleeding from the esophagus, stomach or small intestine. This is called melena. Rectal bleeding of bright red blood with clots, sometimes mixed with stool, is called hematochezia.